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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Peabody Award-winning weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues, is one of public radio's most popular programs.
Episodes
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Apple TV+'s delightful 'Time Bandits' is much better than the film that inspired it
Time really does fly in this fun and charming adventure series, based on Terry Gilliam's 1981 film about a gang of thieves who steal treasures at different points in history.
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A former stunt performer walks away (mostly) unscathed from fist fights, flipped cars
Filmmaker David Leitch says it's easier to do stunts himself than direct his stunt performer friends. "You are responsible for their safety," he explains. "Your heart goes through your chest."
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50 years ago, 'Country Life' solidified Roxy Music's reputation as art-rockers
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'Omnivore' offers a fresh take on the history of the food on your plate
From tuna to chili peppers to salt, each episode of this new Apple TV+ docuseries focuses on a unique ingredient. But there’s an additional element that runs throughout the show: passion.
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'Twisters' swirls an old-fashioned rom-com into an effects-happy action movie
This follow-up to the 1996 blockbuster Twister updates the original by making its heroine — not its hero — the center of gravity, but alas, the script doesn’t let her be a whole lot of fun.
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Remembering famed sex therapist Ruth Westheimer, aka 'Dr. Ruth'
Westheimer's matter-of-fact sex advice, along with her funny lively personality, made her a national media celebrity. She was born in Germany in 1928 and died July 12. Originally broadcast in 1996.
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Remembering actor and producer Shelley Duvall
Duvall, who died July 11, starred in The Shining, Popeye and numerous Robert Altman films. She also produced the award-winning Faerie Tale Theatre. Originally broadcast in 1992.
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'Longlegs' is a terrifying serial killer — who never touches his victims
Nicolas Cage plays a satanic murderer, and Maika Monroe is the clairvoyant FBI agent on his trail, in this tense and frightening horror movie.
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Writer Shalom Auslander catalogs his lifelong battle with self-contempt in 'Feh'
Auslander has written for decades about growing up in a dysfunctional household within an ultra-orthodox Jewish community. The title of his latest memoir comes from the Yiddish word for "yuck."
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Filmmakers profile America's economically lost generation in 'Two American Families'
FRONTLINE documentarians Tom Casciato and Kathleen Hughes spent decades following two working-class families who lost well-paying manufacturing jobs and then struggled to regain their way of life.
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This absorbing debut novel about writing takes its cue from 'Mrs. Dalloway'
Rosalind Brown's debut novel, Practice, centers on an undergraduate student trying to write an essay on Shakespeare. Along the way, we are treated to the fleeting insights of the the brain at work.
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'Janet Planet' star Julianne Nicholson is proud to be a character actor
Nicholson says when strangers recognize her on the street, they're never quite sure how they know her: "They might think I sold them kittens, or I work in the ice cream shop."
